THE ANGRY BLACK MAN: FAILURE AT THE TOP

Friday, September 2

FAILURE AT THE TOP

FAILURE AT THE TOP
OBAMA’S LACK OF LEADERSHIP
By Phillip Norton
After House Speaker John Boehner knocked the President down on Tuesday, Obama picked himself up, dusted himself off again and pretty much fell in step with the right again. This was an amazingly incompetent failure of leadership that has further demeaned, embarrassed, and diminished the Obama Presidency. Whoever allowed it to happen should be fired. Whoever failed to tell Obama that the idea of a pre-emptive strike (Jobs speech) while the Republicans were having their Saturday Night Live debate, was dangerous and foolish and should be fired? But they won't be. They (the failed advisors in the White House) are trying to win the respect and appreciation of moderate and independent voters. Obama doesn’t understand that all voters, not just Black voters, want to see strength and strong leadership and competence. The American people have seen nothing but failure, incompetence and lack of strong leadership from the White House. The reporters, writers, journalists, and bloggers like me see that the wildly left progressives are disgusted with Obama for his failure to be progressive. I never expected him to function as a progressive, or to pursue progressive issues or values. But I did expect him to keep his promises. I did expect him to be better than, not worse than Bush. I did expect him to be a strong leader. I did expect him to have some level of competence as a negotiator. He is an abject failure at both. He is a first down punter- a failure at negotiation. It is tempting to blame Obama's chronic, consistent pattern of leadership failures on some advisor. But I think we must face the reality that Barack Obama is a wimp, a smart man, even a nice guy, who just doesn't have the spine to be as tough as the people of the United States and the rest of the world need.
This screw-up should lead to the firing of whoever orchestrated it for Obama, and whoever failed to nix it, and that includes the withdrawal of Barack Obama as a candidate for the 2012 Presidency!! And the leaders of the Democratic party have to wake up to the reality that their leader is not a leader, that he is being seen more and more every day as a wimp who can be pushed around. We need a President who can be tough- on crime, on polluters, on corrupt banksters, on trans-national corporations, even on party members who go rogue. I think it's time for a tough-as-nails, take no prisoners woman President. Folk on the street say there's no candidate in sight. I say that once Obama steps down, a rush of candidates will come out of the woodwork- good ones. The scary Obama lackeys say that if Obama doesn't run, the Dems will lose. I don't believe that unsupported claim. I think it's a lie. When LBJ stepped down, Robert Kennedy would have won if he had not been assassinated. Obama had his chance. He is not a leader. Registered Democrats, independents and the people of America deserve better. He should step down or face primary challengers, preferably step down. America needs a strong willed woman President who will really lead. It is time.

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A LIL BIT ABOUT ME

Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Phillip Norton. I 'm a 63 year old Black blooded writer/visual activist/urban street missionary with four outstanding adult sons. I was raised in a house, but I'm field certified. America is the place of my birth, but I consider myself a citizen of the world. I’m the editor and founder of The Angry Black Man. I, as a righteously angry Black man growing up in the Gary, Indiana urban experience have witnessed many events in my life from a very unique point of view, one that is almost impossible to express through the so called mainstream media that will never showcase a talent who doesn't echo their spiritually twisted and hypocritical perceptions of Black reality.

As an outspoken Black writer/artist, it is very difficult to express myself fully when the medium that publishes my work has the final say in the finished product, most often literally robbing it of its intended impact and message! My writing has been featured by The Indianapolis Recorder, Salon, Huffington Post Black Voices, Chicago Defender, Blackagendareport, and Mother Jones. My work has also been referenced by FOX NEWS, MSNBC, the Rush Limbaugh Show, as well as online magazines and publications such as The Atlantic Buzzfeed, Earhustle 411, AMPS Magazine, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. But I know all too well from experience that it is next to impossible to gain any lucrative acknowledgement from the very oppressors to whom I target in my work. I attempt to enlighten the ignorant and break the mental chains put on us through an educational system that never will activate the dormant greatness that exists in our mighty Black souls.

Read on and let the much-needed detoxification, cleansing and reprogramming begin. My talents are spiritually given and do not belong to me, so I have a responsibility with all I have been exposed to in this life to enlighten others in my own unique way to the lessons that I have learned.

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CLICK ON PHOTO TO SEE VIDEO. On December 4th, 1969, Chicago police raided Fred Hampton’s apartment and shot and killed him in his bed. He was just twenty-one years old. Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also killed in the raid. While authorities claimed the Panthers had opened fire on the police who were there to serve a search warrant for weapons, evidence later emerged that told a very different story: that the FBI, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office and the Chicago police conspired to assassinate Fred Hampton.